Matthew Tokson

Law professor @sjquinney, teaching criminal law and procedure, cyberlaw, AI, privacy. Views are my own. My writing is here:

[Matthew Tokson @mtokson]

I just posted a new essay, forthcoming in the Florida Law Review, on Retrospective Surveillance. It focuses on geofence searches and how to assess them, in anticipation of the upcoming huge Supreme Court case on geofences.
Check it out: https://t.co/xnQApybbMk

[Matthew Tokson @mtokson]

@PrawfBainbridge Elsevier seems to be saying that they'll continue to accept published law articles, FWIW https://t.co/HGfHR1rZA5...

[Matthew Tokson @mtokson]

Complaint here: https://t.co/iThr48YlkA

[Matthew Tokson @mtokson]

Florida sues OpenAI on various grounds (products liability, negligence, unfair trade practices), calling its products deceptive and unsafe and blaming OpenAI for several murders and suicides.

[William Baude @WilliamBaude]

Full post, co-authored with @RichardMRe, here: https://t.co/zttfc7KYh9

[Matthew Tokson @mtokson]

@WilliamBaude @RichardMRe @SCOTUSblog "Come come Mr. Rumpole, the jury and I will use our common sense."
https://t.co/GVq6q1lWud

[Matthew Tokson @mtokson]

@andrewarruda @ProfArbel That's good too!

[Matthew Tokson @mtokson]

Yonathan presciently anticipated the problem of AI-drafted pro se litigation flooding courts, which is now a nationwide issue. He's a brilliant and creative thinker on this and many other issues.

[Yonathan Arbel @ProfArbel]

The judicial economy problem of AI is making the headlines.

This was anticipated, as well as the bitter pill many lawyers and legal scholars need to swallow: the solution will have to come via integration of AI into adjudication.

Read more in the link below

[Matthew Tokson @mtokson]

@andrewarruda Yes, a good take! But @ProfArbel wrote a whole law review article about it

[Matthew Tokson @mtokson]

The Sixers should rehire Daryl Morey and fire him again for trading Jared McCain.

[Matthew Tokson @mtokson]

@EoinHiggins_ Maybe, although the aggregate of AI experts do express those concerns (https://t.co/KaBYPqrhH4).
Anyway, my guess would be the majority of workers in any industry will ultimately endorse the same principle as the CEO: Don't regulate us.
But I still want to regulate them.

[Orin Kerr @OrinKerr]

The number of warrants obtained by the New York Police Department in the years before Mapp v. Ohio (1961), which applied the exclusionary rule to the states: negligible.

The number of search warrants obtained by NYPD in 1963, after Mapp: 5,132.

https://t.co/28kRBeSmWy

[Matthew Tokson @mtokson]

This is deeply silly because a) the AI race concept is badly flawed and there is no "race" (https://t.co/UdRp5LRgQK) and b) Trump approved the sale of advanced chips to China, erasing the US's biggest long-term competitive advantage

[Sophia Cai @SophiaCai99]

New: The AI exec. order was postponed because David Sacks called Trump this morning and argued that having the federal government review models before their public release would slow down innovation and harm the U.S. in its AI race with China.

David Sacks was read in on the EO this week and senior White House officials believed he was good with it.

“Then, he called POTUS this morning unbeknownst to anybody, his own staff included, and derailed it,” a senior White House official told me.

w/ @cheyennehaslett @jacob_wendler
https://t.co/0GLIe4M4uj

[Matthew Tokson @mtokson]

link here: https://t.co/2yUZaBkFQC

[Matthew Tokson @mtokson]

I was quoted in this fascinating story about Florida's criminal investigation into OpenAI's role in encouraging a mass shooter

[Matthew Tokson @mtokson]

@CathyReisenwitz Pursue arms control with its competitor and others sooner rather than later.

[Matthew Tokson @mtokson]

American companies compete with foreign companies in a variety of industries, including AI. But there's no "AI race" that we need to win. There's no finish line, no way to prevent knowledge diffusion, and many downsides to recklessly speeding ahead.

[Lawfare @lawfare]

The "AI race" with China is Washington's excuse to deregulate and skip safety. But AI knowledge spreads fast, racing accelerates rivals, and there's no finish line. From @ProfArbel and @mtokson

[Matthew Tokson @mtokson]

@CathyReisenwitz Both sides almost accidentally blew up the world several times, so a more peaceful approach might have avoided that. The superpowers eventually negotiated treaties reducing nuclear arms substantially. They could have done that decades sooner.

[Matthew Tokson @mtokson]

@CathyReisenwitz It's more that it was a competition and not a race. The US raced to build the H-bomb first, won the "race," gained no strategic advantage from being first, and the USSR copied them very shortly thereafter.

[Matthew Tokson @mtokson]

@CathyReisenwitz Running a chip race might make more sense, unfortunately the US is currently doing the opposite.

[Matthew Tokson @mtokson]

@CathyReisenwitz Yes, also a bad metaphor, and a huge net negative for the world including the US.